Social Constraints

Famous quotes containing the words social and/or constraints:

    “In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.”
    —Simone Weil (1909–1943)

    “The analogy between the mind and a computer fails for many reasons. The brain is constructed by principles that assure diversity and degeneracy. Unlike a computer, it has no replicative memory. It is historical and value driven. It forms categories by internal criteria and by constraints acting at many scales, not by means of a syntactically constructed program. The world with which the brain interacts is not unequivocally made up of classical categories.”
    —Gerald M. Edelman (b. 1928)